Colouring an old wedding photo . A few days ago Barrie Warby contacted me with a plea to help him fix up his mothers photo. Unfortunately it was stuck to glass and heavily faded. He posted me his prized photo, carefully wrapped, still in the frame, glass and all! The restoration process began. . The image was stuck to the glass so i cleaned all the areas of exposed glass and air dusted...

An example of photo restoration For more on hand colouring and see our photograph colouring tutorial The above image created a few restoration challenges… Even the tones to allow the colour to “stick” Reduce the texture and grain from 1 Adding a texture to the jacket which was a tweed. Colouring as per this photograph colouring tutorial 1. The tones were normalized with an...

Photos that I restore the most are be those that have faded. Simple fades are simple to correct. Just a quick adjustment of the levels or a quick burn in with dodge and burn tools. Complex fades like the one below are not so simple. This image could not be colour corrected by tweaking the colours, instead it had to be converted to black and white, restored and then coloured. You may have seen...